Month: October 2014

There is this special thing meeting people from your childhood. I finally managed to meet Sandra. Amazingly, she looks (almost) the same as she did 12-13 years ago, No wrinkles, nothing. Quite impressive 🙂 Sandra is traveling a lot (she works in a turistic agency), so it was very inspiring to hear about all the places she visited. Can´t wait to meet again and I definitely want to go somewhere new now 🙂

Today would be the 100th. birthday of Dr. Jonas Salk, the medical researcher and the virologist that came up with the polio vaccine, saving thousands of lives. He didn´t even patent it, which is quite amazing…(article)

This summer I promised my niece that we will go to the butterfly house in Hagaparken in Stockholm. Finally, today we managed actually to go there. Inside we could enjoy a quite unique experience among butterflies flying freely around in an exotic tropical environment. We also enjoyed a truly breathtaking view of sharks in the Haga Ocean Aquarium.

Today, I caught myself in a moment that was very short but so intense. I got overwhelmed of a sad feeling. So what happened? I was playing with my daughter, which should be THE moment. We were playing on the floor so there was nothing dangerous around, like water, heavy things or so. She should have my full attention. Should… but she didn´t. I caught her watching me confused and sad, and my heart was ripped apart. Why? My baby was competing in attention against my cell phone. A cell phone–. Because there was something so important I couldn´t check it later…Not really.

I read now that 2-year old children has a significant worsened ability to learn words, if the child was disturbed by the phone signal in the moment when it was supposed to learn that word and the parent answered the call.

Further researcher Eva Hoff studied children’s creativity and says that when children play passively with phones they let themselves be entertained reducing their own ability to think and govern themselves. And because kids do what parents do, there is a risk that children who take after parents cell phone use get passivated. Children do not exercise on solving problems and they do not have imagination which may lead to a generation having more difficulties as adults to find solutions to problems. They expect there to be a machine where they can press a button and everything dissolves – or that they can escape from boredom in this way and do not care to get involved, says Eva Hoff.

Horror, so I decided from now on when I play with my daughter, my cell phone will be standing on the shelf..

Surfing around the internet I came to a page about the book “How Rich People Think” that caught my attention. It was about Steve Siebold that has met and interviewed hundreds of millionaires trying to understand the way they are thinking in comparison to average earning people. According to the website in his book “How Rich People Think” he teaches how to think, to copy, to take measures and become rich. Here is the substance of his book:

An average person…

believes that money is the root of everything evil. Rich people believe that poverty is the root of evil.

believes that egoism is a burden. Rich people believe egoism is a virtue.

has a mentality based on coincidence. Rich people have a mind based on acting.

believes that the way to a fortune is based on official education. Rich people believe in acquiring specific knowledge.

long for the good old days. Rich people dream about the future.

think of money in an emotional way. Rich people think of money in a logic way.

Having a child makes the time fly away. All the things I planned are forgotten and all the friends I was supposed to meet shortly after birth got “postponed”. Finally, though I got the chance to meet my dear friend Selma. She has twins(!!) and it is for me an enigma how she deals with two babys in the same time…Respect 🙂

Listened to the news today and was surprised to hear that there are 30 000 slaves in Europe. 80-90% of these are women, mostly kept as sex slaves. That means at least 24 000 women are sex slaves. Today, this moment, this second. I wonder, what kind of a person one has to be to keep a human being as a slave. It would be interesting to see a documentary about these people because I believe as long as they exist there will be slavery.

Just booked the trip to Sweden. Next week me and Ada are off…It is a luxury to be able to do exactly what you want when you want it. Love it. This is the life one should have … always. We are flying with Norwegian air despite all the crushing negative critiques that they have obtained last few months. I do have to say that I have never had any problems with them. On contrary, they have always been very helpful.